What do you think of when you hear Budapest? Ruin pubs and parties? The famous Hungarian spas? The magnif ...

What do you think of when you hear Budapest? Ruin pubs and parties? The famous Hungarian spas? The magnificent Parliament building on the Danube? The horrors of 2 terror regimes? One of the series I p ...

We left Tarcal with the GPS navigating us to the Hortobágy National Park Visitor Center. When I'd checked ...

We left Tarcal with the GPS navigating us to the Hortobágy National Park Visitor Center. When I'd checked Google maps the drive would take about 1 hour 45 minutes through Tokaj on Route 38, but our Ga ...

Hungarians love their bathhouses and a country break to a hotel that has it's own spa sounded like a perf ...

Hungarians love their bathhouses and a country break to a hotel that has it's own spa sounded like a perfect plan for our break from cities. We stayed in 2 different spa hotels, the first in Tarcal in ...

Eger is a pretty, historic town an hour and half drive north east from Budapest, a perfect place for a co ...

Eger is a pretty, historic town an hour and half drive north east from Budapest, a perfect place for a country break. Eger is well known in Hungary for it's greatest hero István Dobó who successfully ...

Cafés, City Walks, and a Whole Lot of Fascinating History Budapest is a beautiful city with lots of UNESC ...

Cafés, City Walks, and a Whole Lot of Fascinating History Budapest is a beautiful city with lots of UNESCO World Heritage Sites, grand cafés and of course it's famous for thermal hot springs and ruin ...

Spain, Hungary, Austria, Czech Republic, and Germany A "bucket list" wish of mine was to spend a couple o ...

Spain, Hungary, Austria, Czech Republic, and Germany A "bucket list" wish of mine was to spend a couple of months in Europe. The last two years we've managed 6 weeks at a time, but - hard to believe b ...